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Millions of low-income households may be disconnected from their phone service under a government proposal to curtail the federal subsidy program.

Net Neutrality activists are fighting the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, saying he would favor the wishes of big cable and big telecom.

New Jersey must fulfill its commitment to fully fund first-of-its-kind initiative to create a new consortium strengthening local news and civic engagement.

Free Press filed a petition to deny the proposed $26.5 billion merger between T-Mobile and Sprint.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law that aims to fill the local-news void.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation to set aside $5 million for a trailblazing nonprofit group that aims to boost local news coverage in the state.

The FCC’s decision to repeal the Net Neutrality rules was “not adequately reasoned” and should be vacated, a coalition of advocacy groups and web companies argue in new court papers.

On Monday, Free Press and other groups filed a joint brief in their D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s 2017 decision to repeal the Net Neutrality protections.

The filing lays out the states’ arguments in an ongoing lawsuit against the FCC, which is also being fought by Mozilla, Vimeo, Etsy, Free Press, the National Hispanic Media Coalition and several others.

What’s so interesting about the Civic Info Bill is that it acknowledges that journalism is one part of a larger interconnected system that supports democratic life.